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- An anthropologist explains Web 2.0 in pictures
- Anthropologists study behaviours and social networks. It must be boom times for that profession.Here is Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and his YouTube video. It is easily the best definition of Web 2.0 that Ive come across.Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us...
- Tags: Culture, Internet 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
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- The democratization of IT
- Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...
- Tags: Quality, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Apple and Verizon in talks about CDMA iPhone
- Apple and Verizon in talks about CDMA iPhoneThat's Nice...Since your response has nothing to do with the article, I hope you were able to use the exciting new copy/paste function in your iPhone to copy this rant from somewhere else.Duh?RE: Apple and Verizon in talks about CDMA iPhone ...
- Tags: Cellular phones, TV-Out, CDMA, Apple iPhone, CDMA iPhone, GSM, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Clash of the Touch Titans summary; which device is my favorite?
- Clash of the Touch Titans summary; which device is my favorite?What does it mean exactly?The phrase "Virtually limitless functionality"? If that is your criteria then why did the Samsung which also had another benefit as a media creation power house I think not rate as the higher of the...
- Tags: Bluetooth, TV-Out, Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- SXSWi - party like its 2009
- SXSWi - party like its 2009Been there. Done that.So rewind a decade and playback the pointy shoes, black turtle necks and funky glasses. I too love the BHA stretch of innovation. It takes me out of my 45 y/o fat b*stard self. But I'm also caught up...
- Tags: SXSWi
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Dame Wendy Hall talks about Web Science
- I must admit that I've tended to be rather sceptical about the whole topic of 'Web Science,' as proposed by the University of Southampton and MIT through their shared Web Science Research Initiative WSRI. My initial view was that we really don't need yet another academic subject...
- Tags: Web, Computer Science, Computer, Dame Wendy Hall, Channel Management, Productivity, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Study: 68% of IT projects fail
- Study: 68% of IT projects failI used to work for the federal government......we never got anywhere near a 32% success rate. More like 10%.This is OK since IT in US is not a business but humanitarian aid to India.ntRE: Study: 68% of IT projects failIs this problem down to the...
- Tags: Strategy, Now Let, IT Projects Fail, PMI, IAG, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this yearBingo - ! ntntBotnets = WindowsXP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, botnet, attack, Linux, virus, vaccine, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Picking the Fleas from Community
- Just how many people can we be "close" to online? Clive Thompson's piece on the New York Times site, "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy," raises some interesting points about digital relationships for those of us engaged in remote work with thousands of community members. Just how many "grooming" relationships...
- Tags: Bond, Relationship, Clive Thompson, Community Member, Investment, Finance, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Apple subnotebook needed
- Apple subnotebook neededLower cost Mac pros needed moreRight now Apple only offers the mini and Mac pro. The mini is useless for most graphics work and the one Mac pro starts at $2500.Those of us in graphics have all sorts of reasons – varied by users – for not...
- Tags: Notebooks, mini, current MacBook, blog, subnotebook, Apple Inc., MAC Pro, PB12
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- Rebuilding George Washington
- According to The Arizona Republic, American researchers have created realistic faces of George Washington by using 3-D scanning, forensics technology and software. They started by scanning a bust of the first U.S. President when he was 53 and developed a special software with the help of an anthropologist to build...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Social Sciences
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Ethnomathematics in the classroom
- Back in 1999, a science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered that fractal geometry was apparent in the designs of many cultures in Africa. Since then, he developed Web tools focused on ethnomathematics -- the interaction of mathematics and culture. These tools cover a broad range of subjects, from the...
- Tags: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ron Eglash, tool
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Random name generator study finds no bias in clasrooms
- According to a study last year, boys and girls sitting in the same classroom, reading the same books and listening to the same teachers, receive different educations. To address this inequity, researchers developed a hand-held device that randomly selects students to be called on in class. The Random Name Generator...
- Tags: teacher
- Blog posts 2006-06-03
- Full text of Google Analyst Day powerpoint notes
- A blogger called Derrick has thankfully posted the full text of the controversial Google Analyst Day powerpoint notes - the same notes that were very quickly taken offline by Google soon after being (mistakenly?) published. I spent an hour or two unsuccessfully searching for evidence of these notes last night,...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- CSI in a box
- If you're not familiar with U.S. TV, CSI Crime Scene Investigation is a weekly CBS show which gathers about 20 million viewers and which routinely speaks about forensic facial reconstruction. Reconstructing human faces from skulls found by the police is nothing new, and it has already being done with computers....
- Tags: skull, software
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Science of services
- IBM is currently trying to figure out how best to invest its large R&D budget in a world that revolves around intangible services as opposed to tangible products. In an excellent piece in Technology Review, we learn that Big Blue is struggling to determine how R&D applies differently to services...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-15
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